Our School
Empowering tools, education, and insights for your health, longevity and optimal wellness!
Sparkle Well Story
Sparkle Well is the culmination of decades of study, work and experience.
Sparkle Well School was founded in 2010 by Sally Mathrick. Practising in an integrative medical centre, diving deep into the applications of Naturopathic medicine, inspired by yoga and motivated by environmental concerns, Sally developed her first program for healthy weight management for women. This program evolved into different iterations, and now curated into Shape Your Menopause program.
In 2011, while writing the DIY Detox column for Wellbeing Australia magazine and working with the international team of Foundations of Naturopathic Medicine Project, Sally started formulating the 5-step Sparkle Cleanse model, which underpins 21-day Cleanse & Renew. As a health writer, Sally travelled the world to understand more about cleansing and detox, enabling her to experience various fasting practices. Sally presented scientific research articulating some of the profound processes and health effects triggered by the fasting state at professional conferences during 2018-19.
In 2021, a 3-day, solo, bush-fast inspired Sparkle Well’s free 5-day program Reset Yourself. This program directs a shift towards nourishing ways of living and regenerative ways of thinking. Sally still regularly fasts, and continues to learn from human-based research about fasting, healthy longevity and the menopausal transition. Many of these insights are shared in Change Fast.
Having been raised in country Victoria, she is not unfamiliar with the patterns of alcohol misuse, the polar opposite of her work and practice! Alcohol free in 14-days provides a step-by-step path to help you untangle the cultural, social, physical and mental impacts of alcohol use, to find an empowered and health-giving path forward.
Health comes from tapping nature’s inherent vitality!
Sparkle Well School programs show you, step-by-step, how to attune with vitality. Even if you live in a city/man-made environment, or currently feel totally devitalised!
Your first step is to decide you want to feel vital – it is your birthright after all.
When you join Sparkle Well School, you’ll be welcomed into the dynamic, private Sparklings Community – make sure you say Hi!!
All programs begin with helping you to establish some of the conditions for health. You are guided to take small actions to start cultivating your vital energy and natural regeneration. Step by step, you make shifts to your diet, activity, mindset and routine, so that your body and mind have what they need to, well, sparkle well!!
Programs will take you through processes that nourish and tone weakened or imbalanced organs or body systems. You’ll be guided to adopt supportive natural remedies, that could already be in your pantry, garden or available at the supermarket. You’ll get effective and reliable insights to apply herbal, nutritional and lifestyle medicines to optimise your health and resilience.
What We Bring To The Table
We help you harness the Healing Power of Nature
We value nature’s inherent, adaptive, harmonic power as the source of all healing. Or as the ancient Romans called it, the vis medicatrix naturae.
Sparkle Well School programs show you, step-by-step, how to create the conditions for health and provide additional support where needed, so you can access your vital healing energy. First individually. Then collectively.
You are an important part of our complex world.
We recognise that everyone belongs and influences our world, and strongly believe that one healthy person positively influences the network of life around them. We value connections with people and organisations working to create a flourishing, healthy world for now and future generations (thank you, you know who you are).
You have great human potential.
We have confidence in the potential of humanity, despite what newspapers tell us!
There is an individual genius inherent in everyone. When we are healthy and well, we all have the capacity to foster regenerative ways of thinking and living, that help a healthier world to emerge. Sparkle Well School programs help individuals to clear out the dross and establish patterns of living, eating, resting, connecting and acting, for a more fun future.
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide affordable, quality education, tools, guidance and resources that lead to vital health for individuals, with collective wellbeing in mind. We specifically help women moving through menopause and beyond, to empower their informed decision-making and help them enjoy their unique maturation journey. We know an empowered menopausal transition will pave the path to great health in post-menopause, and build confidence and resilience for them to share their wisdom with their communities.
Our Philosophy
At Sparkle Well School, aligning, fostering and tapping into natural vitality is the foundation of everything we do. We are guided by the healing harmony of nature, interconnectedness, human potential and the principles of Deep Ecology, and aim to ensure our decisions, actions and offerings reflect these values.
Our purpose is to help individuals shine their innate light by providing education, tools and insights for healing, longevity and optimal wellness.
We aim to nurture authentic self-confidence and vitality for women moving through menopause and beyond, to contribute to the broader dialogue about women’s wellbeing and contribution to our collective future. We also prioritise being honest, finding flow, having fun, and laughing a lot (but not so much that one wets one’s pants).